IACR News item: 20 October 2020
Karim Belabas, Thorsten Kleinjung, Antonio Sanso, Benjamin Wesolowski
ePrint Report
In this short note we analyze the low order assumption in the imaginary quadratic number fields. We show how this assumption is broken for Mersenne primes. We also provide a description on how to possible attack this assumption for other class of prime numbers leveraging some new mathematical tool coming from higher (cubic) number fields.
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